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Much of the focus at the Democratic National Convention this week will be on how Vice President Kamala Harris, who will accept her party’s presidential nomination, and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, address policy issues. The momentum Harris has generated since she reached the top of the ticket has been sensational but largely based […]
Sonya Massey, 36, called 911 at 12:50 a.m. July 6 to report noises outside her Springfield, Illinois, home. Within 15 minutes, two Sangamon County deputies arrived. According to bodycam video recorded by his partner, Deputy Sean Grayson rang the doorbell, knocked on the door and repeatedly identified himself as a deputy from the sheriff’s office, […]
According to the family of Sonya Massey, the 36-year-old mother of two shot dead by an Illinois sheriff’s deputy July 6, she was a descendant of William K. Donnegan, who’d been a shoemaker and conductor on the Underground Railroad before he was lynched by a white mob during the Springfield Race Riot in 1908. Massey, […]
As calls for police accountability mount over the killing of Sonya Massey, the Black woman who was shot by a sheriff’s deputy in her Illinois home, I’ve thought about the stubbornness of police violence — how this issue can seem intractable and insurmountable, given how frequently incidents like this seem to occur. And as presidential […]
